Subject:What did we do before having the internet?

Written By:quirky_cat_girlon03/18/06 at 12:13 am

I was just thinking to myself today...

wow...what did I do, in regards to searching for info on a particular music group/actor/subject...etc...prior to having the luxury of searching for it on the internet and getting an answer instantly? It's like before the internet we were limited to magazines and research books in order to find out about someone or something famous....is it just me, or does it seem like a LONG time ago that we had to resort to those types of things? ???

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Written By:La Rocheon03/18/06 at 12:17 am

I was just thinking to myself today...wow...what did I do, in regards to searching for info on a particular music group/actor/subject...etc...prior to having the luxury of searching for it on the internet and getting an answer instantly? It's like before the internet we were limited to magazines and research books in order to find out about someone or something famous....is it just me, or does it seem like a LONG time ago that we had to resort to those types of things? ???

Tape trading.

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Written By:Tiaon03/18/06 at 12:38 am

sitting around waiting for the internet to get invented.

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Written By:whistledogon03/18/06 at 12:59 am

I honesdtly don't know how I survived before the internet came along. I Guess in those days, we had to buy books and magazines to get our information

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Written By:quirky_cat_girlon03/18/06 at 1:00 am

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Written By:deadrockstaron03/18/06 at 1:14 am

I used to have to widdle little statues out of bars of soap for fun. It wasn't pretty.

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Written By:bbigd04on03/18/06 at 1:17 am

I would use my encyclopedias more and books, news I would get from TV or the newspaper, now I almost always hear news first online.

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Written By:Sister Morphineon03/18/06 at 1:30 am

I actually had to go to the *GASP!* the library.

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Written By:Philip Enoon03/18/06 at 1:36 am

We had reference books on the shelves, spoke to each on the telephone, went for walks outside, posted letters with stamps on the envelope, went shopping at the location of the shops concerned, and looked a lot healthier.

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Written By:deadrockstaron03/18/06 at 1:38 am

We had reference books on the shelves, spoke to each on the telephone, went for walks outside, posted letters with stamps on the envelope, went shopping at the location of the shops concerned, and looked a lot healthier.

;D Touche

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Written By:whistledogon03/18/06 at 1:39 am

When the internet came along, it made life much easier. No longer did I have to pay random people on the street to go and buy me some porn ;D

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Written By:Tiaon03/18/06 at 1:44 am

We had reference books on the shelves, spoke to each on the telephone, went for walks outside, posted letters with stamps on the envelope, went shopping at the location of the shops concerned, and looked a lot healthier. thank god that's over. :)

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Written By:deadrockstaron03/18/06 at 1:49 am

thank god that's over. :)

Norm, pass me the beer nuts

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Written By:rich1981on03/18/06 at 1:56 am

I was just thinking to myself today...

wow...what did I do, in regards to searching for info on a particular music group/actor/subject...etc...prior to having the luxury of searching for it on the internet and getting an answer instantly? It's like before the internet we were limited to magazines and research books in order to find out about someone or something famous....is it just me, or does it seem like a LONG time ago that we had to resort to those types of things? ???

I wasn't that much into music before but for general things I would read the enyclopedia, check out books at the library, read magazines and talk to friends, heck even listening to other's conversations was a good way to find out more information, but back then I had to resort to what my parent's listened to, which was mostly classical and latin music.

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Written By:Philip Enoon03/18/06 at 2:50 am

Vinyl records, cassette tapes and the radio to listen to music.

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Written By:CatwomanofVon03/18/06 at 1:48 pm

I read more and watched t.v. But the fact that there is usually garbage on t.v. now-it is a good thing. But I do need to read more. Oh yeah, I also used to do a crazy thing called GO TO SCHOOL!!! (Another thing I need to get back to). Curse you Al Gore for inventing this thing that I spend all my time on when I should be reading and going to school!!

Cat

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Written By:whistledogon03/19/06 at 5:29 pm

One of the great luxiries in having the internet is something that I just noticed today ...

Many of the 80's albums and songs that I love were not big chart hits. Because of this, they never saw much radio or MTV play back in the day. With the power of the internet, I've been able to listen to sound samples and mp3's of many of these songs to know if I want to buy the whole album or not. Back in the day, you couldn't do that.

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Written By:Mortonon03/19/06 at 5:36 pm

If i'm right, we got the net in 2004, so i'll have been 15. Um... can't really remember what I did when I was 15... nowt much, just hung around, watched tv. Oh, my Playstation 2 was also *gasps* used often! Nowadays it may as well just be a shelf ornament ;D

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Written By:Apricoton03/19/06 at 5:38 pm

I never really had to do research before the internet... but before we had a good connection, I just used Encarta Encyclopedia back on the old Windows 98 computer.

For Music, I just downloaded MIDI versions of a few songs from the 90s I really liked.. or I swiped CDs from my parents old collection.. they used to belong to one of those "10 CDs for a buck" clubs, so they bought almost every mainstream CD from the 1990s.

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Written By:Mortonon03/19/06 at 5:41 pm

I never really had to do research before the internet... but before we had a good connection, I just used Encarta Encyclopedia back on the old Windows 98 computer.

Oh christ, yeah! How could I forget Encarta?! It came free with the old Windows 95 PC we got back in '96 (Which later got updated to 98). I can just remember EVERYONE at school using Encarta for everything! In the end, the teachers got sick of reading pages and pages of printouts of Encarta pages, so we got told to stop ;D

Our Windows 98 computer would have been far too slow to run the internet, so we got a new PC shortly before connecting.

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Written By:rich1981on03/19/06 at 5:59 pm

I also used Grolier Encyclopedia back when I had a Macintosh in the mid 90's. Also don't forget that Cliff notes were popular at the time, and many students were caught cheating their reading by consulting these references.

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Written By:Apricoton03/19/06 at 6:15 pm

Oh christ, yeah! How could I forget Encarta?! It came free with the old Windows 95 PC we got back in '96 (Which later got updated to 98). I can just remember EVERYONE at school using Encarta for everything! In the end, the teachers got sick of reading pages and pages of printouts of Encarta pages, so we got told to stop ;D

Our Windows 98 computer would have been far too slow to run the internet, so we got a new PC shortly before connecting.

Our Windows 98 was pretty awesome.. very fast. It had the Encarta on it... I used it for most of my research, also went to the town library then and again.

Apparently, I was the only one who ever used Encarta, cause our teachers said most of our papers sucked, and they took a few class periods one day to show us how to use Encarta.. I'd been using it for ages.

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Written By:Mortonon03/19/06 at 6:19 pm

Our Windows 98 was pretty awesome.. very fast. It had the Encarta on it... I used it for most of my research, also went to the town library then and again.

Apparently, I was the only one who ever used Encarta, cause our teachers said most of our papers sucked, and they took a few class periods one day to show us how to use Encarta.. I'd been using it for ages.

My Windows 95 was awful. It kept crashing. One time, (and this is no joke or exageration), I opened up a new document in Microsoft Word, pressed 'T' and the whole computer froze. Stopped working completely, had to turn it off by the mains. That's just one of many examples I could give of how retarded our old PC was, but i'd be here all night listing them.

We also got shown (quickly) how to use encarta in our Open Day (When they show year six around, give them a taster of "big school" life), but likewise, I also had a pretty good idea of how to use it.

Did yours have the legendary MindMaze?! :D

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Written By:Apricoton03/19/06 at 6:23 pm

Did yours have the legendary MindMaze?! :D

MindMaze? Gotta look it up, doesn't sound familiar...

No, sadly, it didn't.. looks cool, though...

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Written By:bbigd04on03/19/06 at 6:52 pm

My Windows 95 was awful. It kept crashing. One time, (and this is no joke or exageration), I opened up a new document in Microsoft Word, pressed 'T' and the whole computer froze. Stopped working completely, had to turn it off by the mains. That's just one of many examples I could give of how retarded our old PC was, but i'd be here all night listing them.

We also got shown (quickly) how to use encarta in our Open Day (When they show year six around, give them a taster of "big school" life), but likewise, I also had a pretty good idea of how to use it.

Did yours have the legendary MindMaze?! :D

I used to get blue screens and "illegal operations" all the time on Windows 95.

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Written By:La Rocheon03/19/06 at 6:57 pm

Oh christ, yeah! How could I forget Encarta?! It came free with the old Windows 95 PC we got back in '96 (Which later got updated to 98). I can just remember EVERYONE at school using Encarta for everything! In the end, the teachers got sick of reading pages and pages of printouts of Encarta pages, so we got told to stop ;D

Our Windows 98 computer would have been far too slow to run the internet, so we got a new PC shortly before connecting.

Did you ever play that game on Encarta?

Urgh, I'd just click random answers until I got things correct, I've never been too good at retention of crap.

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Written By:Dominic L.on03/19/06 at 7:17 pm

I watched TV and didn't care about researching bands.

But then again, the internet (Though new) was around when I was born. 8)

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Written By:La Rocheon03/19/06 at 7:18 pm

I watched TV and didn't care about researching bands.

But then again, the internet (Though new) was around when I was born. 8)

Of course, if we want to be particular, the Internet (in one form or another) has been around since the majority of us were born ;)

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Written By:Apricoton03/19/06 at 7:30 pm

But then again, the internet (Though new) was around when I was born. 8)

The internet was first invented in 1984.

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Written By:La Rocheon03/19/06 at 7:39 pm

The internet was first invented in 1984.

Actually, if we're getting technical, the first proper packet switching link was established in 1965 between a computer in Massachusetts and a computer in California ;)

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Written By:Mortonon03/19/06 at 7:42 pm

I used to get blue screens and "illegal operations" all the time on Windows 95.

Try getting an 'illegal operations' for trying to open Microsoft Excel. Happened about twice a day

Did you ever play that game on Encarta?

Urgh, I'd just click random answers until I got things correct, I've never been too good at retention of crap.

That's MindMaze. Yeah, I played it sometimes, and no, I rarely got the answers right :-[

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Written By:whistledogon03/19/06 at 9:52 pm

it's not a case of What did we do before having the internet? It's a case of Who did we do before the Internet. I knew a guy in college whose girlfriend left him because he spent so much time online ;D

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Written By:Howardon03/20/06 at 5:48 pm

Playboy and Penthouse magazines ;) O0

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Written By:Lady Beardon03/20/06 at 5:50 pm

Remember when we actually had to open a dictionary to look up a word?

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Written By:Howardon03/20/06 at 6:09 pm

Remember when we actually had to open a dictionary to look up a word?

Dictionary.com

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Written By:Philip Enoon03/21/06 at 9:32 am

On the bookselves we had many volumes of The Encyclopedia Britannica resting heavily waiting to be used for homework and information. Now, to use the Encyclopedia Britannica Online only part information is available unless a fee has been paid for.

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Written By:CeramicsFanaticon03/21/06 at 11:16 am

[quote author=whis

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Written By:La Rocheon03/21/06 at 12:16 pm

Remember when we actually had to open a dictionary to look up a word?

A dick and a what now?

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Written By:CeramicsFanaticon03/21/06 at 12:27 pm

Remember when we actually had to open a dictionary to look up a word?

I still do that. :)

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Written By:Philip Enoon03/21/06 at 12:58 pm

I still find a dictionary useful, you can see the words surrounding the word too assist you more.

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Written By:Howardon03/21/06 at 5:49 pm

A dick and a what now?

What are you talking about? ??? ::)

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Written By:MidKnightDarknesson03/22/06 at 11:16 pm

We didn't get the internet until about 4 years ago, or so. I spent a lot of my time outside, with my neighbor. Hm.. Haven't talked to her in about 5 years.. I think she got the internet, too. I talked on the phone a lot. Ha.. I could actually hold a conversation on the phone back in the day..

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Written By:quirky_cat_girlon03/22/06 at 11:16 pm

We didn't get the internet until about 4 years ago, or so. I spent a lot of my time outside, with my neighbor. Hm.. Haven't talked to her in about 5 years.. I think she got the internet, too. I talked on the phone a lot. Ha.. I could actually hold a conversation on the phone back in the day..

whoa...I remember those days when talking on the phone was the "thing" :o

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Written By:deadrockstaron03/22/06 at 11:33 pm

We wore onions tied around our waist, as that was the fashion of the day..

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Written By:lasvegasbillon03/23/06 at 12:26 am

spent all my time in a bar drinking smoking and betting...... now I can do it at home........

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Written By:Philip Enoon03/23/06 at 1:56 am

My firends were non-virtual.

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Written By:Howardon03/23/06 at 3:02 pm

My firends were non-virtual.

way before messageboards and chat rooms.

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Written By:Philip Enoon03/23/06 at 4:38 pm

Go down to the pub!

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Written By:CeramicsFanaticon03/23/06 at 4:40 pm

We cleaned the house!

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Written By:Philip Enoon03/23/06 at 4:40 pm

Eat round the table...

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Written By:CeramicsFanaticon03/23/06 at 4:46 pm

Eat round the table...

Oh yes! That's a rarity these days!! ;D

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Written By:deadrockstaron03/23/06 at 4:58 pm

We wore onions tied around our waist, as that was the fashion of the day..

No one got the Simpsons reference?

I eat at the table, btw. :)

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Written By:Mr Tumnuson03/24/06 at 6:19 am

No one got the Simpsons reference?

I eat at the table, btw. :)

I miss doing that being away from home and all. Endless tv dinners.

Umm before the net?? Was without an addiction!

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Written By:karenon03/24/06 at 6:29 am

Eat round the table...

Still do.

Did more work before the internet

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Written By:Philip Enoon03/24/06 at 10:50 am

Did more work before the internetToo true!

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Written By:Donnie Darkoon03/24/06 at 10:52 am

You'd just ask somebody about them, that's not named Jeeves.

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Written By:Philip Enoon03/24/06 at 10:53 am

If you wanted to know the time you asked a policeman.

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Written By:Mr Tumnuson03/24/06 at 11:47 am

Lots of browsing books in the local library!!

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Written By:La Rocheon03/24/06 at 12:23 pm

Tape trading.

Gotta ask.. did anybody here do any tape trading or was that just for those of us with less.. acceptable.. tastes ;D

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Written By:Donnie Darkoon03/24/06 at 1:37 pm

Gotta ask.. did anybody here do any tape trading or was that just for those of us with less.. acceptable.. tastes ;D

I like tapes. What a convienient format.

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Written By:La Rocheon03/24/06 at 1:40 pm

I like tapes. What a convienient format.

For me that was the main way I could find different music.

Most of the stores in the places I lived didn't carry much in the way of interesting stuff.

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Written By:Howardon03/24/06 at 3:19 pm

Listen to music on the radio.

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Written By:Philip Enoon03/24/06 at 3:23 pm

Played the piano and guitar.

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Written By:La Rocheon03/24/06 at 3:44 pm

Played the piano and guitar.

I can see you now Philip.

You were in Slade right?

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Written By:Howardon03/24/06 at 3:47 pm

Went to the local grocery store.

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Written By:Philip Enoon03/24/06 at 4:03 pm

Went to the local grocery store....with cash!

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Written By:Donnie Darkoon03/24/06 at 4:06 pm

We lived in caves, had long hair and walked on fours. Fire was invented in 1990.

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Written By:La Rocheon03/24/06 at 5:09 pm

We lived in caves, had long hair and walked on fours. Fire was invented in 1990.

MS Fire 1.0 :o

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Written By:Dominic L.on03/24/06 at 10:26 pm

Go down to the pub!

And drink tea?! :D

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Written By:Sister Morphineon03/24/06 at 10:36 pm

I read more, although I still read a lot now. I also spent more time out of doors, which explains why I'm so damn pale.